try finally doesn't

[Colin Brown]

"Rene Pijlman" <reply.in.the.newsgroup at my.address.is.invalid> wrote in
message news:214asv4cuppifk71are7unbam170fgregk at 4ax.com...
> Colin Brown:
> >When I run this code and then immediately do a Control-C, I do not get
the
> >'thread' printed?
>
> Output buffering. It does when you import sys and add sys.stdout.flush()
> after the print statement.
>
> --
> René Pijlman

Also when I run this on Win2K, I get:
C:\test>cmd
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\test>python -u t3b.py

C:\test>

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import thread, time, sys

def x():
    try:
        time.sleep(60)
    finally:
        print 'thread'
        sys.stdout.flush()

thread.start_new_thread(x,())
time.sleep(5)